Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-04-08
them all, seems to assert his age, ~ evil
denced by the greater growth of his cap

Now, / ask you. are such conditions
worth paving for! Are people foolish to
buy such luxuries and realities for en-
ioyment? Aud all this is accompanied
py large number of people of refine
mept, OF education, of independent cir
cumstances, and each vying with the
other as to who shall have the incest
groupds and houses. Thus they not
only enjoy the beauties of their own
grounds, but those also of their neigh.
bors and acquaintances. Aside fron,
their own homes, their own acquaint.
ances, their own locality, there are always
newcomers. There is hotel full of
cultured eople on pleasure bent. BY
stepping on the cars almost every hour
in the day you can be in the City of the
Angels in half hour, and Los Angeles
is getting TO be pretty fair makeshifl
of city. In another hour you can be
ut the ocean, with the wbiiecapped
waves rolling before You, and hotels
where every luxury can be obtained. If
Pasadena be uncomfortably warm op ex.
eel ,tional summer days, in a shor! hour
one can go where wraps are desirable.
will not institute comparisons, for
they are said to be odorous, nor am
one of those who believe ali good belong
to Southern California. Many Of these
advantages are common TO all parts of
California and every part Of California,
and the condition flowing therefrom is
great improvement as compared with
any part OF the Eastern States. If We
are the fortunate ones now, If this espec.
ial boom now here is the result of acci.
dent, if we are nearest to the material
that makes booms, then hope that we
will not for that reason be the object OF
envy or have any one pick AT US in a feel
ing Of unfriendliness. for it may be taken
as certainty that if people continue to
come here in increased numbers yearly,
that other places of merit, other places
that are adapted for the growing of or.
apges, other places with desirable cli-
mates, will be found and will be occu-
pied by the intelligent and appreciative
public.
One fact should be evident to every
citizen of San Francisco: that the boom
herein fact, all booms in any part of
California-will be of great ad vantage to
San Francisco. For, as it was said, call
ads lead to Rome," so, too, in this
State, en- this coast, all roads lead to
San Francisco. Every one who comes
TO this State for pleasure is sure to go,
too. to San Francisco, and the prosperity
of Every town contributes from its accu-
mutation again to the chief city of Cali
fornia. San Francisco is feeling this
pulsation Of new blood continually en-.
tering the gates of Los Angeles. and all
| the Advancement and improvements of
value are the direct result of this boom
of the southern counties. You should
help us boom, for you are the gamer
equally with ourselves. Were it possi-
bic to make Los Angeles city equal to
San Francisco, even then there would be
no ground for envious feelings, for the
prosperity of the one would always add
prosperity to the other. That we have
boom is fortunate for every nook and
corner Of this State. If the people OF
the United States recognize the superb
ority of any particular part of California
over any other part as desirable winter
resort, then this belief should he encour.
aged, and when once here, this boom
will spread to every part.
As to lots selling in Pasadena for $1,000
front foot, that, also, is very wide OF
the mark. Take the two principal
blocks in that city, and lots can be
bought for $l25 and even less a foot.
There are, perhaps, four corners-the
most desirable corners-which may be
held at $500 a foot, but these are occu-
pied by banks and business houses, some
of which cost, perhaps, hundred
1 Ali Il Oh
would rent for nearly as much as your
best localities in your city. All this is
not based upon transient boom; the
circumstance may be cited that there are
four banks 10 Pasadena with an aggre
gate deposit of over two millions of dol
lars.
But to come back to your editorial of
March 10Th. In speaking OF the estate
of E j. Baldwin-which is q very val.
liable one-the impression was conveyed
that he holds his land at 5000 an acre,
and that there are few fag ends around
the border that he would not consent to
take this price for. As to this statement,
it is boom talk, and not fact. 1t is true
that much of Santa Anita, a part of Mr..
Baldwin's estate, is selling for that price
| or more in small tracts of ten acres to
to wn lois, for there are several towns of
much beauty and some extension located
on that. This rancho is located on the
slope and at the base of the Sierra Madre
Mountains, where the climate is NEST per
| feet, the locality most sheltered, with
| splendid roads; no difference what rain
falls, they are always clean and hard, as
the pe culiar granite soil absorbs the water
and makes no mud and little dust. 1t
is the land best suited for the growth of
our highest favored and brightest
colored fruit, and especially adapted for
growing superior oranges and grapes
This land is not equal TO the great bulk
of Mr.. Baldwin's land, which lies lower
in the valley, for the growing of wheat,
barley, alfalfa, corn, potatoes. cabbages,
and like farm products, yet this land
would not sell for one-sixth of the first
land mentioned. The one is used for
fancy purposes, the other for farming.
1t may not be generally Understood by
you or your readers that in the southern
counties not even part-not even the
greater part--of our lands are adapted
to successfully grow oranges, and we
the trees. From this it may be assume d
that the localities for growing oranges
north will be circumscribed and not
general.
When you say that there ore no twen.
ty acres in California that will yield,
with labor, and limited labor, subsist-
ence for an American family of six, then
you are greatly in error. Take our ia.
vored localities at the base of our mount
aims, and, with water, $500 an acre for
oranges would not he an extravagant
income. In fact, I believe every mature
orange orchard at Riverside will exceed
it. Look at it: An acre, planted twenty
feet apart, makes about seventy five
trees; it is a very conservative estimate
to say that each tree will average five
boxes to the tree, making three hundred
and seventy five boxes; these. at 81 ,33
a box, without box, would make $500,
md mn oranges can he boupht at River.